KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoPlex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfinwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square239linkfedilinkarrow-up1671arrow-down123
arrow-up1648arrow-down1external-linkPlex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfinwww.androidauthority.comKatherinaReichelt@feddit.org to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square239linkfedilink
minus-squareCouldbealeotard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 hours agoYou can get around this by extending your network with a VPN. I know that’s an extra config, but a lot of people who are setting up home labs are already doing this anyway. How does jellyfin offer remote streaming without a VPN?
minus-squareTh3D3k0y@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoIt has User accounts and have people access with a login through port forwarding. myIPaddress:8383 effectively, which directs to my movie NAS I tried to do a VPN with Tailscale and just couldn’t wrap my head around it.
minus-squareCouldbealeotard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoSo, it sounds like it doesn’t offer a remote streaming service like Plex then. You just publicly expose or use a VPN like you can with Plex.
You can get around this by extending your network with a VPN. I know that’s an extra config, but a lot of people who are setting up home labs are already doing this anyway.
How does jellyfin offer remote streaming without a VPN?
It has User accounts and have people access with a login through port forwarding. myIPaddress:8383 effectively, which directs to my movie NAS
I tried to do a VPN with Tailscale and just couldn’t wrap my head around it.
So, it sounds like it doesn’t offer a remote streaming service like Plex then. You just publicly expose or use a VPN like you can with Plex.